GRAHAM POLL has accused Jose Mourinho of "an unrepeatable and disgraceful personal comment" about him and Sir Alex Ferguson.

The retired referee clashed with Mourinho on the Stamford Bridge touchline during last month's Premiership game between Chelsea and Manchester United.

The Chelsea boss admitted afterwards that he believed he would be sent off for what he had said to the Tring official, actually leaving his seat in the dug-out to sit in the crowd before being told by his assistant Steve Clarke that he had not been dismissed.

And tonight Poll, who criticised FA chief executive Brian Barwick after his final game last week, will explain his side of the story. "He knows what he said to me and it was just absolutely disgraceful," Poll told BBC1's Inside Sport.

"I wouldn't repeat what he said. I've thought long and hard about it and I just wouldn't repeat it. It was a disgraceful personal comment about myself and an opposing manager."

It is understood that Mourinho suggested Poll's relationship with Fergie was more than intimate, and while Poll does not explain the full details, he added: "I was that shocked to hear it and he knew he had gone too far.

"That's why he sent himself off before I had the opportunity to do so.

"It was the very personal nature of what he had said. It was something I never thought I'd have the misfortune to hear."

After last month's game, Mourinho suggested he had been storing up the abusive comment since Poll's controversial decision to send off Blues skipper John Terry at Spurs in November, adding: "I just cleansed my soul a little bit."

Chelsea players accused Poll of telling them on the pitch that they "needed to be taught a lesson", a charge he denies.

Poll said: "If I was wrong to send John Terry off, then I was wrong and it was a genuine mistake.

"But the implication behind all this is that I went out with an agenda to teach Chelsea a lesson and show them some discipline.